Quotes about Multilingualism

And then we would hear the life-giving words passed back along the aisles in French, Polish, Russian, Czech, back into Dutch. They were little previews of heaven, these evenings beneath the lightbulb. I would think of Haarlem, each substantial church set behind its wrought-iron fence and its barrier of doctrine. And I would know again that in darkness God's truth shines most clear.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

Among the disciples of Jesus, it seems most likely that at least Philip was bilingual in Aramaic and Greek.